Death, Materiality and Mediation

An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

von Barbara Graham

176 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Death, Materiality and Mediation, Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with remembrance in both the public and private arenas through ethnography of communities on both sides of the Irish border. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary communities. Through this study, Graham expands the concept of materiality to include narrative, song, senses, emotions, ephemera and embodied experience. She also examines how modern practices are informed by older beliefs and folk religion.

• Reihe: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781785332821
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books